PURPOSE: To eliminate the need for special designation for types of input characters and also to improve the easy recognizing efficiency of handwritten characters, by using information which is less than a prescribed number of strokes and supplied in a prescribed area of an input area to recognize the types of input characters.
CONSTITUTION: Strokes supplied onto an input tablet 1 by an input pen 2 are compared with the reference stroke stored previously in a template memory 4 through a stroke discriminating part 3. As a result, the strokes are sorted into a similar group and the number of input strokes are decided together with the types of input strokes used to specify the intended characters and the position information, etc. in combination with other input strokes. These decided factors are supplied to a character recognizing part 6. The part 6 compares those information with the character pattern information stored in a character dictionary memory 7. Then the types of characters are decided through a character type control part 70 and with reference to an input area discriminating part 5 in case the recognition is required for small letters. Thus it is possible to omit the special designation for types of input characters and also to improve the easy recognizing efficiency of handwritten characters.
MASUMI ABE
JIYUSETSUPE PINO KOBAYASHI
DEIIN SANGU
CHIN FUU FUENGU
JIYON ESU OSUTOROMU
